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mandarins’ escorts, Chinamen riding donkeys and 
steering great wheelbarrows, perhaps pulled by one 
OX, a pony and a mule by means of three sets of very 
long rope traces. The gate was flanked by two enorm- 
ous towers with cannon painted on the walls, green, 
gold, sky blue and old porcelain tiles — simply gorge- 
ous and a magnificent work of art. On the wall next 
to this is the American block house and below it inside 
the United States legation. The United States and 
German legations are next to the wall inside and have 
block houses and sentries to protect the legations of 
the Tartar city. The English, Japanese, Italian, Rus- 
sian, German, Austrian, United States and Dutch all 
have guards of foreign troops here. It is very inter- 
esting to see all the different sentries outside of the 
walls of each legation. The Japanese looked the most 
stupid and the slouchiest of them all; but they have 
very swelled heads. The temples, of Heaven, Earth, 
Sun and Moon, Agriculture and the Thibetan Llama 
temple, and the great temple of Ten Thousand Budd- 
has, where there are really ten thousand figures of 
Buddha and the Great Drum and Bell towers are all 
each more interesting than the last. I saw Mr. Rock- 
hill, the United States minister; he was very kind, ad- 
vising us where to go, ete. He is an honorary mem- 
ber of the Harvard Travellers’ Club and knows China 
very well. He speaks Chinese and Thibetan and so 
could give us a great deal of interesting and useful 1n- 
formation. The films from my camera went bad and 
only the small ones came out; those, however, are very 
good and I have bought some from a Japanese photog- 
rapher which are very fine and which will give you an 
